Engel Maschinenbau Gesellschaft M.b.h.

Engelbert Kastner

Rupert Mörwald

Walter Eglseer

Injection-moulding machine with at least one handling device, with an electronic stored-program control (SPC) for the injection-moulding machine and an electronic stored-program control for the handling device, characterized in that the stored-program control (SPC IMM,) for the injection-moulding machine (IMM) and the stored-program control (SPC R,) for the handling device () are realized on one and the same, common digital computer ().

Injection molding machine having a handling device

Process for the control of an injection-moulding machine and optionally at least one handling apparatus allocated to same in which, in a form guiding the operator, the operating parameters required for an injection cycle to run are entered via an input unit into a data processing unit storing these operating parameters and then one or more injection cycles are carried out according to the stored operating parameters, safety conditions for the protection of machine parts by means of which certain movement sequences of the injection-molding machine or the handling device are forbidden or allowed, being specified prior to the start of injection, there being provided on a screen an input mask on which one of several, preferably graphically displayed, basic movement modules is selected in each case and on which then, for every selected basic movement module, a safety condition in the form of logical, preferably Boolean operations is adjusted or adopted from the state of one or more different basic movement modules and finally stored.

Process for the control of an injection-moulding machine

In a method of remote monitoring or remote maintenance of an injection molding machine which has an SPC with at least one CPU for the operation of actuators of the injection molding machine in real-time, data are transmitted between the injection molding machine and a remote monitoring or remote maintenance workstation disposed at a remote location. In addition to real-time control operation of the actuators of the injection molding machine the SPC of the injection molding machine operates as a web server, by way of which a simultaneous communication connection can be made with two or more remote monitoring or remote maintenance workstations, wherein a CPU of the SPC performs both real-time control operations of the injection molding machine and also server functions for remote monitoring or remote maintenance. In addition for data transmission between an SPC and an operating unit, having a microprocessor, of an injection molding machine, the SPC and the microprocessor of the operating unit can communicate by way of a local network in which the SPC forms a server and the operating unit forms a client.

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